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leafy sea dragon
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Ah, all right then. In a way, Anime Conji was competing with San Diego Comic-Con too, though, based on my experiences, that competition is not so much for attendees as it is for vendors and exhibitors. If you were a video game company or a small publisher, and you have the resources to get a booth at San Diego Comic-Con, that'd logically be your first choice because you'd get the most eyeballs passing by. Everything else comes after that. That's the way I see it, at least.
As an attendee, I always figured these cons have these events not because every other con has them, but because there will always be some attendees who come to these events expecting to see it and will raise a stink if it doesn't. I try not to be one of these attendees, but I must admit I was disappointed when I went to a con (not anime-related) expecting industry panels and not finding any on its schedule. (Well, the one in 2015 didn't. At this con's 2016 iteration, they DID get industry panels, as well as some local aspiring independent outfits making their first big announcements there.)
Ah, I see what you mean then. You mean private, non-industry sponsors who will give some big amount of money provided the con will fulfill a specific request, right? I DO know of some large cons (and I define large as in it receives 8,000 or more attendees) that get their funding primarily in that way. All of these cons I can think of are very specific on what they're doing, however, and the people who run them are well-connected enough in their cons' fields to meet those requests. That being said, for one of these cons, they relied upon one person who literally supplied them with one-third of their equipment year after year (and usually contributed whatever money it took to allow them to break even--no requests other than to use his equipment), and when he didn't show up in 2015 for an unexplained reason, everyone at that event felt it, even the corporate sponsors. The whole con was falling apart. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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Well, now I'm impressed! I was beginning to think that the extended Sevakis family and some ANN staff were the only ones here who are actually working in the industry. Glad VinceA and jvowles spoke up on this, I love to hear from people who actually know something...It seems Cutiebunny wants us to be impressed with how much $$ he and his pals spend, I wish I had such but I'm not. Forget Sketch Collectors, what about the Furry Community huh? When is AX and OV going to start sponsoring events for Bunny(Persons) and Cat(Persons)? They'd really grow then...
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Kadmos1
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He isn't kidding on it being a hassle running cons: there were 480 cons globally last year and 339 scheduled this year. This info is from AnimeCons.
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